Package for strip or like materials



Aug. 22, 1933. J, R PRICE 1,923,456

PACKAGE FOR STRIP OR LIKE MATERIALS Filed June l5. 1931 ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 22, 1933 uNirED STATES .i .n V1,923,456.

PATENT OFFICE 4 claims.

This invention relates to a package and more particularly to one of thatcharacter for enclosing continuous strip products, such as wire solderand the like, and has for its principal objects to prevent unwinding ofthe product and to provide inspection of the product without Yundoingthe package.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, I haveprovided improved details of structure, the preferred form of which isillustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a package constructed in accordance withmy invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view showing the 'wrapper of the packageremoved to dispense th product. K

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the wrapper, particularly illustrating ameasuring scale yassociated therewith, whereby lengths of the productmay be measured incidental to its dispensing.

Referring more in detail to the drawing:

1 designates a spool preferably formed of metal and having a centraltubular core 2 provided with end disks 3 and 4 between which the prod-Ai uct on the core, such as continuous wire solder 5,

' is wound, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The disks 3 and 4 may be secured to the core in any preferred mannersince the specific construction of the spool forms no part of thepresent invention.

6 designates a wrapper preferably comprising a rectangular sheet metalstrip having substantially the same width as the spacing between thedisks 3 and 4 and of sufcient length to substanitially encircle thesolder wound on the spool. The length of the wrapper, however, ispreferably shorter than the periphery of the spool in order to leave agapor window '7 between its ends through which the nature of the productmay be 'observed without removing the wrapper from the spool. Y

In order to retain the wrapper about the spool,

. one end thereof is provided with spaced tongues 'tangular stripsubstantially equal in width to the of,rand a tongue on the opposite endof the wrapas the solder, is wound on the spool and the wrapper is drawnthereabout between the disks so that the ends of the tongues may beprojected through the slots 10 land 11 and bent over as at 13 to retainthe Wrapper.

The nature ofthe product may then be readily observed through the spacesbetween the tongues and in case of solder, the kind of solder, such asrosin core, acid core, or the like, may be observed. A

To dispense theproduct, the tongues are bent back so that they will passthrough the slots, after which the wrapper may be removed, as shown inFg.l2. Portions of the solder may then be unwound from the spool andmeasured on the scale-of the Wrapper, after which the wrappery may bereplaced on the spool to confine that portion of the solder remainingthereon. Y

It is obvious that I have provided a package well adapted for thepackaging of ribbon-like products, such as wire, wire solder, tape andthe like and that the nature of the product is readily observed throughthe gap formed between the ends of the wrapper Without removing thewrapper from the spool. 8.0'

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1

1. In combination, a package of the character described including aspool member, a wrapper for encircling a product wound on the spool andhaving shorter length than the circumference of the wound spool to forma window between the ends thereof when the wrapper is extended aroundthe spool for disclosing the nature of said product and to permitcontraction of the wrapper 90 for more tightly engaging the product onthe spool after a portion of the product is dispensed therefrom, andtongues integral with one end of the wrapper and engageable with theother end thereof to secure the wrapper about the spool.

2. In combination with a spool including a core and spaced disks securedto opposite ends of the* core, a flexible metal wrapper for enclosing aproduct wound on the spool comprising a recspacing between the disksandA of a length shorter than the circumference of the disks to formawindow between said ends when the wrapper is extended about a spool fordisclosing the nature of a product wound on the spool and'to permitcontraction of the wrapper upon removal of a portion'of said productfrom the spool, and hav-V ing a plurality of slots adjacent one endthereper for each of said slots and engageable therewith for locking theWrapper on the spool.

3. In combination With a spool, a Wrapper for enclosing a product Woundon the spool comprising a. rectangular strip having a slot in one endand a tongue on its opposite end adapted to be extended through the slotand bent retractively for securing the Wrapper on the spool, saidwrapper being comparatively short and the tongue being relatively longto permit contraction of the wrapper for more tightly engaging theproduct remaining on the spool after a portion is dispensed therefrom.

4. In combination with a spool including a core dispensed therefrom.

JACOB R. PRICE,

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